Might have to go back on the road

OP, regional is hit an miss. To the rest of you, please stay scared of NYC, it's what keeps me coming back for the rates

 

A lot of you guys act like babies scared of going nyc or ny or whatever, professional driver drives to any city, any state, any weather and any traffic. Stop crying i seen hundreds of other trucks there everyday.

 

Defiantly follow Chinatown's advice and pull a tank. There is plenty of food grade and non haz mat commodities to pull if you don't want to mess with chemicals. You'll never make a good living pulling junk van/reefer freight and dealing with all that crap those guys put up with.

 

amen ! best money i ever made was in and outa nyc every week back in the day .

 

As China said, look at tanker work. Venezia hauls a lot of cement and hot asphalt. They also have flatbed and dry van work. On the cement side, you do not need a tanker endorsement according to the law. However, Venezia may require tank and hazmat endorsements. I cannot tell you what those guys make, but they're a good foot in the door for tank work. You could also check out F.T. Silfies, which is working with Quality Carriers. They're based in Nazareth Pa, but you might be able to take the truck home. Going west a little further, JP Donmoyer pulls dry bulk tanks, mostly lime. They were a great outfit, they have regional work, and you used to be able to take the truck home. I worked for them for two years, made around 53k both years. I left only because of pay. I'm making more now where I'm at, and home daily. But I'd go back in a heartbeat if needed

 

check with Brunozzi in Vineland

 

You took home 300 bucks this week, thinking this is terrible.
OTR isn't a whole lot better; Anywhere from $300.00 to maybe $700.00 a week for 100 hour per week of your time?
You're better off working at McDonalds.

 

The big question is what are you doing that 300/week is considered decent? Even at CRST I made more than that. And their pay is ###### up.

 

I know this is better late than never, but have you ever considered food service? Sysco, Us Foods, McLane? Just those 3 outifts alone are always looking for drivers. Home every night, decent benefits, good salary. Hard work though. You touch everything.

 

Scenario 1 – Sage School, 150 hours, one type of equipment for training, 1:1 in truck, 2:1 on range, 44 hours behind the wheel:

1. I’ve met and interviewed with a tanker company who will hire me once I complete Sage;

2. Monday - Friday home every day, work two Saturdays a month;

3. Assigned a truck that’s 8 years old at the most, no more slipseating;

4. Choose what start time works best for me, for example anywhere in the 2-hour window of 0100 - 0300, 0200 - 0400, 0300 - 0500, 0400 - 0600, 0500 - 0700, 0600 - 0800, 0700 - 0900 (you get the idea);

5. Company tries to the best of their ability to keep my start time consistent within the 2-hour window I choose (the VP of Ops showed me his scheduling on his computer screen, so this is legit);

6. If I need to take a day off during the week for something, I can do so and just make up my time on the weekend;

7. Will hire me directly out of Sage school or McCann only, so I would have to go to Sage or McCann (only schools like Sage and McCann are approved schools from which they hire new graduates – it’s a corporate thing);

8. Training pay is $150 per day for approximately four weeks of training;

9. Gross pay is a range of $900 to $1100 a week, paid on percentage of load, not miles;

10. Delivery to customers is not extremely time-sensitive like most other trucking companies, have 5-hour, 8-hour, 24-hour windows for delivery;

11. Sage is paid for in full with my father’s DD214 and a scholarship I’ll be awarded for $1000 if I choose to go to Sage and start March 7th or April 18th.

Scenario 2 – Harrisburg Area Community College (“HACC”), 240 hours, equipment like sleepers, day cabs, 6-speed, 10-speed, tanker, doubles, skid pad, hazardous driving practice, night driving practice, 200 hours hands on for preinspection, behind the wheel, after I get my license I can go back for finishing school if I choose, 2-4 students in truck with rotation driving for approximately 50 hours per student behind the wheel.

I’ve applied for WIA funding and have been approved as eligible; however, the paperwork needs to be processed to be absolutely sure I’ll get the funding. So, to me, this is not a done deal until it is DONE and fully approved and the $5300 is coming to me. Because I’ve applied for WIA, once approved HACC is totally paid for.

Carriers such as Old Dominion, New Penn, Pitt Ohio, etc., hire graduates directly out of HACC. One woman went into a job making $70,000 a year right out of school (this is legit).

I haven’t had the opportunity to meet with any companies for interviews yet, since I only met with HACC yesterday.

I honestly don’t know what to do. If I start March 7th, I can be done April 11th and go to work for the tanker job with the pay as listed above. If I start April 4th with HACC, I’ll get on the road in May, but could be in a job at $70,000, out two nights a week, drop and hook.